Book review: The Sleepwalkers, By Christopher Clark
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Your support makes all the difference.Probing the events and characters that ignited war in 1914, this book is as authoritative as it is gripping.
Drawing a parallel with 9/11, Clark suggests that the crisis following the assassination of Franz Ferdinand (brilliantly described here) was "the most complex [event] of modern times".
While focusing on the Balkans, Clark also provides a vivid panorama of the jostling among Europe's policymakers including Sir Edward Grey, a formidable operator behind "a posture of gentlemanly diffidence".
The reader is rapt as "watchful but unseeing" protagonists head for inconceivable horror.
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